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Sílé / The Debt

February 25, 2024·   Mkawasi Mcharo Hall

Part I: Mama gathers up her handbag and says- We are going to jumuiya. So I hold onto her skirts and skip along. I am 5 all over again and …

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The Duka

January 10, 2024·   Mkawasi Mcharo Hall

Tailor 1- Towards the end of 2023, I was the women with the bag of clothes for mending being rejected by all the village tailors. They were too busy with …

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The Courier

December 30, 2023·   Mkawasi Mcharo Hall

On a normal day in Lebanon in 1967, a young Kenyan man was attending Prof. David Gordon’s History class at the American University of Beirut. You blink I blink, boom, …

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Frames

September 14, 2023·   Mkawasi Mcharo Hall

One of the boys is narrating heroically how he got suspended. I look at him with the side eye in my head. I’d say10th, 11th grade or thereabout…

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